Vermin-exterminator.



Patented Apr.-29, I902.

M. J. MDBFORD &. G. ,E- AMBROSE.

VEBMIN EXTERMINATOB.

(Application filed Feb. 12, 190;2.)

(No Model.)

i I I I I r I I ll Inventors Witnesses.

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VERMlN-EXTERMINATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 698,723, dated April29, 1902.

Application filed February 12, 1902. Serial No. 93,768. (No model.)

T0 (0% w/wm it may concern:

Be it known that we, MILVERN J. lVIORFORD and GEORGE E. AMBROSE,citizens of the United States, residing at Skidrnore, in the county ofNodaway and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Vermin Exterminators, of which the following is aspecification, referonce being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Our invention relates to new and useful improvements invermin-exterminators for poultry; and its object, among other things, isto provide a device of simple and inexpensive construction which may bereadily adjusted to hold motionless a fowl of any size during theoperation of fumigation.

Another object is to employ novelmeans whereby the fowl is preventedfrom smothering during the operation.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in thenovel-construction and combination of parts hereinafter more fullydescribed and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings,showing the preferred form of my invention, and in which Figure 1 is aperspective View of the device, showing the lid raised anda fowl inposition.

Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2, Fig. 3. Fig. 3*

is a plan view with the lid removed. Fig. 4 is an end elevation. Fig. 5is a similar view of the opposite end. Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail Viewof a portion of said end, showing the slide raised and also showing indotted lines said slide reversed; and Fig. 7 is a detail view of anadjusting-screw'and showing the means for holding it in operativeposition.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference, D is abox formedof'any suitable material and havingalid K hinged to one side thereof.One end of the box is slotted downward from its upperedge, and the sidesor edges of the slot are beveled on opposite sides, as shown at G,thereby forming guides for a slide 0, mounted in the slot. This slide isprovided at one side ofthe center with an upwardly-extending slot E,covered by a sheet of rubber or other elastic material I, having anaperture 6 therein.

Slidably mounted in the box D are two vertical strips B 13'', arrangedat right angles to each other. To the innerand outer face of each stripis secured a metal plate fand 6, respectively, eachof which has anaperture registering with an aperture in the strip. Swiveled withinthese apertures is the upset end 9 of ascrew Z). This screw engages andprojects through an intern ally-threaded sleeve 0, fitted within theside of the box and secured thereto in any suitable manner, as by meansof a collar (Z. Each screw b has a head A, which can be readily grippedby the fingers when it is desired to adjust the strip.

One end of the lid K is preferably cut away, as shown at H, so to permitthe slide 0 to be raised when the cover is down upon the box. A suitableh'asp I and staple M or other desired means may be employed for lockingthe lid when closed.

In operation a fowl is placed in the box between the sides and thestrips B and B. Said strips are then adjusted inward until the fowl isheld practically-against movement. Slide G is slid upward, if necessary,until the aperture e is in alinement with the head, and said head isthen thrust therethrough, the elastic fittingsnugly about the neck. Byreversing the slide, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 6, the aperture ecan be brought nearer the center of the .end of the box. Thisisadvantageo us where very large fowls are placed in the device. After thefowl has been placed as above described a fumigator is put in the boxand the lid closed. It will be seen that the fowl will not suffer fromsuffocation duringthe fumigating process and is securely held againststruggling.

In the foregoing description we have shown the preferred form of ourinvention; but we do not limit ourselves thereto, as we are aware thatmodifications maybe made therein without departing from the spirit orsacrificing the advantages thereof, and We therefore reserve the rightto make such changes as fairly fall within the scope of our invention.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we therefore'claim asnew, and desire to secure by. Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a receptacle having a slot in one end thereof;of an elastic covering for said slot having a head-receiving aperturetherein.

2. The combination with a receptacle havslide in said slot; and anelastic covering for the slot in the slide, said covering having ahead-receiving aperture.

5.. The combination with a receptacle; of holding strips slidablymounted therein, means for adjusting said strips at right angles to eachother, a reversible, slotted slide mounted in a slot'in the receptacle,and an elastic covering to the slot in the slide, said covering having ahead-receiving aperture.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

MILVERN J. MORFORD. GEORGE E. AMBROSE.

\Vituesses:

W. F. JENKINS, JOHN W. 000K.

